A Comparative approach to notions of good citizenship
ENThis chapter seeks to understand the relationship between profiles of good citizenship and sociodemographic, economic, political, and cultural country variables, seeking to deepen the understanding of good citizenship in the participating countries of IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016. Using a comparative policy approach, the chapter explores three groups of factors that may relate to contextual differences in notions of good citizenship: (i) political (forms of democracy, legal system, levels of corruption, and authoritarianism); (ii) economic (growth and economic inequality); and (iii) cultural (values and norms, levels of tolerance, role of the internet). The results show that, although there are common patterns among all or most countries (low proportion of anomic profiles, high proportion of comprehensive and socially-engaged profiles), there are also important differences in the distribution of these profiles across countries, depending on the geographic location and type of government regime. National income and use of social media are the two most significant variables to explain differences in notions of good citizenship between countries.
